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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1923
Page
15
A satirical column from Sidney recounts mixed local curiosities and community notes. anecdotes include a banker posing as a prohibition agent, church duty, railroad pride, corn claims, fashion digs, and a joke on rail and weather. Milestones and school exhibits highlight local life amid plaisant humor.
C G Hutchins guardian of Lorenzo public schools led an agricultural club that earned multiple prizes at the Fall Festival. Pupils enrolled many exhibits new to Cheyenne county with entries from Erwin Phelps, Melvin Phelps, and Lawrence Williams including popcorn onions citrons peanuts broom corn potatoes rye barley cucumbers and radishes.
Corn picking has begun with reports reaching the county agent. Albert Frerichs near Gurley harvested forty five bushels per acre and W A McMillan near Bronson yielded forty one bushels on white dent. Yellow dent promises forty five to fifty. Husking price six cents per bushel for best corn. other corn negotiable. Potatoes also being harvested. Svend Olsen reports 191 bushels from a one acre patch southeast of Potter. other yields range down to forty bushels. Notables include James Walker Ernest Ruhter George Colter and Lewis Olson.
Hundreds attended over two nights as the Skeen Wonder show featuring seven performers and eight acts per performance presented popular music, novelties, and mystic acts. The Skeen juveniles won praise for varied instruments and dancing numbers. The elder Skeen performed sleight of hand and sawed a young lady in three pieces.
Pleasant View Dairy Calf club showcased a public demonstration on selecting feeding caring and showing dairy calves with four members presenting. Mildred Newton and Helen Christensen won first team while Richard Welton and Erma Welton placed second. coach John Newton north of Sunol led the group with about 100 observers in attendance.
Part of all the actors would have helped. But on the whole it was a good, clean, high class entertainment.
The USDA urges alfalfa farmers nationwide to inspect fields for sick spots caused by parasitic ellworm, the alfalfa stem nematode. Prompt, aggressive eradication is advised as the disease weakens and thins stands in affected areas.
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